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Learning Greek, speaking Cypriot: what’s wrong with a classroom in dialect?

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...
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Ancient scrolls are being ‘read’ by machine learning – with human knowledge to detect language and make sense of them

C. Michael Sampson receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 'the Books of Karanis,' a project that studies fragmentary Greek literature from the Egyptian ...